To cut a very long story short I decided to stage the reunion (which I would shoot myself on Super 8 film, as though for a ’70’s family ‘home movie’) with Antiniska as ‘guest of honour’ and all the missing adolescents replaced with ‘doubles’. Coincidentally, at that time, in the late 90’s, a lot of the Roman teenagers I passed in the street had very similar hairstyles to the young people in the film from 1975 and many seemed to have striking facial resemblance to the cast - faces that I had imprinted on my memory from watching the original film so many times and also through my subsequent archive research through Salò’s production stills (mostly taken by Deborah Beer).
